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The assumption that MMR vaccines cause autism is not isolated to the United States. A seven-year study was done in Denmark from 1991 to 1998 following children who received the MMR vaccine. The results of the study found that when comparing the vaccinated children to the unvaccinated children, the risk of autism in the vaccinated group was 0.92 ...
[10] This paper was cited by Andrew Wakefield's fraudulent 1998 Lancet paper. [11] The proposal of a vaccine-autism link has been called "the most damaging medical hoax of the last 100 years". [9] Fudenberg claimed in a 2004 interview with Brian Deer that he was able to cure autistic children using his own bone marrow. [12]
Many medical researchers make use of VAERS to study the effects of vaccination. VAERS warns researchers using its database that the data should not be used in isolation to draw conclusions about cause and effect. [11] Nonetheless, raw data from VAERS has been used in vaccine litigation to support the claim that vaccines cause autism.
[8] [9] [10] In 1999, due to concern about the dose of mercury infants were being exposed to, the U.S. Public Health Service recommended that thiomersal be removed from childhood vaccines, and by 2002 the flu vaccine was the only childhood vaccine containing more than trace amounts of thimerosal. Despite this, autism rates did not decrease ...
A new study of close to 100,000 children shows no link between the vaccine to prevent measles, mumps, and rubella and an increased risk of autism. Researchers analyzed health insurance claims ...
The modern anti-vaccination movement gained fuel from the alleged relationship between autism and the use of thiomersal in vaccines, in which a study was published by Andrew Wakefield in 1998 that showed that the Thimerosal in the routine children's MMR vaccine caused autism. The original study can be found at The Lancet. [64]
However, the nasal spray vaccine won’t cause influenza illness. According to the FluMist package insert , the flu spray is about as effective as the shot: 45%, compared to between 40% and 60% ...
Following this determination, the vaccine court has routinely dismissed such suits, finding no causal effect between the MMR vaccine and autism. [12] Many studies have failed to conclude that there is a causal link between autism spectrum disorders and vaccines, [13] and the current scientific consensus is that routine childhood vaccines are ...